We are suing to prevent Donald Trump from controlling mail-in voting by dictating to the Postal Service of whose ballot they will and won't deliver. All of this is laddering up to Trump trying to dictate who gets to vote and who doesn't.
Markwayne Mullin had the FDA delete warnings about the dangers of kratom, an addictive and sometimes lethal drug found in gas stations.
Mullin holds an up to $1 million stake in a major kratom company.
ALSO NEW: Our latest anaylsis shows that despite the 5th Circuit's Feb. 6 ruling in favor of ICE's mandatory detention policy, judges there have overwhelmingly continued to reject detentions as a violation of detainees' due process rights.
w/ @Jtblaeser
https://t.co/S1mKN5GKHj
The bottom line: The federal judges have ruled more than 13,300 times — the overwhelming majority of the 15,100 rulings — that ICE had detained people in violation of the law or their due process rights.
https://t.co/3LIALFX6sP
Dude, federal troops can’t just show up at polling places and seize ballots or voting machines! Elections are run by the states and not by Donald trump and a bunch of thugs he wants to go to polling places to foul up a legal election 🤨
BREAKING: In a shocking maneuver, Senate Republicans just BLOCKED a Democratic effort to BAN federal troops from entering polling stations or seizing ballots or voting machines. Makes you wonder what they’re planning this November…
It's also completely bonkers because we have an excellent vaccine for measles, and the only pediatric COVID vaccine doesn't protect from most long-term issues.
It makes no sense that people are freaked out about measles when COVID can cause almost all the same damage in children.
It's one of the more nonsensical things happening right now.
JUST NOW 🇺🇸🇮🇷
Iranian media claims Trump agreed to release $24 billion in frozen Iranian assets through the UAE, while refusing to announce it publicly.
After all the threats, all the red lines, and all the chest-thumping…
This is what losing a war looks like.
Turner flagged the irony of WNBA All-Stars wearing a celebration of the 250th birthday of the United States. Forcing a league made up of predominantly Black and LGBTQ+ women to wear a celebration of 1776 would ignore the history of systemic chattel slavery and disenfranchisement.
It’s genuinely wild to see how ignorant @billmaher still is on this topic. He has fully swallowed the Trump/Netanyahu line on Iran, and seems genuinely shocked to hear the truth: Bibi was against the Iran deal BECAUSE it was working.
He and his allies wanted war, not peace.
This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.
More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.
And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.
Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.
The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.
Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.
We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.
https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl
Republicans in North Carolina just proposed a bill that says if a woman is caught with an IUD or attempts to get an abortion then men are allowed to use DEADLY FORCE to try and stop her. They are proposing a bill that will allow men to kill women for using birth control. It’s House Bill 1232. Keith Kidwell is the Republican who proposed the bill. He claims it counts as self defense to use deadly force to stop abortion. This is a man who claims to be pro life. Feel free to give his office a call and let him know how you feel about his opinion.
And for anyone who says “obviously this will never get passed” that’s not the point. The point is it’s fucking insanity that a government official would even try to make a law like this. It’s insanity that there are men out there who are trying to make it legal to kill women for making decisions for their own bodies. This is real and it’s happening right now in front of our eyes.
A reminder that DOJ has sued 30 states for access to their sensitive voter files. DOJ is currently 0-8 in decided cases.
This is what I mean when I say the future of democracy is on the docket. https://t.co/8iFP5fL7em
I’m actually writing about this topic right now.
Our failure to hold southern traitors accountable and allowing the South to define them as patriots is why we’re back here again.